BRICK STREET AT POST OFFICE

(Source of picture above: Florida State Archives; below, Florida Collection, Main Library, Jax)

DOING THEIR PART -- Posing on a brick street downtown, these Boy Scouts participated in a 1941 paper drive.  They collected paper scraps for recycling, and they also advertised defense bonds & stamps.  Most likely, at least several of them would eventually go into service for their country after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. 

Behind the Scouts is an entrance to the US Post Office & Courthouse.  (Unclear is whether these particular doors opened on Monroe Street or Forsyth Street.)  Notice the interesting detail on the aluminum siding that surrounds the doors.  Depicted are four modes of postal transportation: airplane, train, ship, and stagecoach. 

Pictured above during the 1930s, the federal building was completed in 1933.  When it first opened, it housed a variety of offices, including those for Depression-era relief organizations.  In 1935, the state headquarters for the Secret Service was also placed in the structure.